[ltt-dev] [PATCH] ltt-sessiond: use short options for modprobe in order to support Busybox

David Goulet david.goulet at polymtl.ca
Thu Nov 3 09:50:54 EDT 2011


Thanks Thomas!

Mathieu did merged but not upstream. It's done now :)

Cheers
David

On 11-11-03 08:03 AM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> * Thomas Petazzoni (thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com) wrote:
>> Many embedded systems are based on Busybox, and therefore use the
>> Busybox implementation of modprobe. This implementation does not
>> support long options such as --remove and --quiet, only short options
>> such as -r and -q are supported.
>>
>> This patches changes ltt-sessiond to use the short options, which are
>> more widely available, and allows lttng to work easily on a
>> Busybox-based system.
> 
> Merged, thanks!
> 
> Mathieu
> 
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
>> ---
>>  ltt-sessiond/main.c |    8 ++++----
>>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/ltt-sessiond/main.c b/ltt-sessiond/main.c
>> index 334af53..2c2fe44 100644
>> --- a/ltt-sessiond/main.c
>> +++ b/ltt-sessiond/main.c
>> @@ -211,16 +211,16 @@ static int modprobe_remove_kernel_modules(void)
>>  
>>  	for (i = ARRAY_SIZE(kernel_modules_list) - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
>>  		ret = snprintf(modprobe, sizeof(modprobe),
>> -				"/sbin/modprobe --remove --quiet %s",
>> +				"/sbin/modprobe -r -q %s",
>>  				kernel_modules_list[i].name);
>>  		if (ret < 0) {
>> -			perror("snprintf modprobe --remove");
>> +			perror("snprintf modprobe -r");
>>  			goto error;
>>  		}
>>  		modprobe[sizeof(modprobe) - 1] = '\0';
>>  		ret = system(modprobe);
>>  		if (ret == -1) {
>> -			ERR("Unable to launch modprobe --remove for module %s",
>> +			ERR("Unable to launch modprobe -r for module %s",
>>  					kernel_modules_list[i].name);
>>  		} else if (kernel_modules_list[i].required
>>  				&& WEXITSTATUS(ret) != 0) {
>> @@ -1490,7 +1490,7 @@ static int modprobe_kernel_modules(void)
>>  	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(kernel_modules_list); i++) {
>>  		ret = snprintf(modprobe, sizeof(modprobe),
>>  			"/sbin/modprobe %s%s",
>> -			kernel_modules_list[i].required ? "" : "--quiet ",
>> +			kernel_modules_list[i].required ? "" : "-q ",
>>  			kernel_modules_list[i].name);
>>  		if (ret < 0) {
>>  			perror("snprintf modprobe");
>> -- 
>> 1.7.4.1
>>
>>
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